What exactly are you trying to accomplish, Bishop? Religious folk barely post here as it is. Are you deliberately trying to kill the forum by being as rude as you possibly can to the few people who still post?

What exactly are you trying to accomplish, Bishop? Religious folk barely post here as it is. Are you deliberately trying to kill the forum by being as rude as you possibly can to the few people who still post?

I noticed that after being gone a while.

If you wish to blame me for poor Christian apologetics, go ahead. Truth is that the religious hierarchies have been complaining about their poor apologists for about 10 years now.

Your guys are likely finding safe dull places where people go just for comfort and security in their delusions and where their Satanic morals are accepted by others with the same corrupted moral sense.

I think it better to post here so that the religious cannot hide from their genocidal God or the corruption that their homophobic and misogynous teaching brings to innocent victims.

If you want such a dull and safe place where you do not have to face the truth, find a more fundy place. There are many.

Reminds me of being in primary school, looking through my dad’s college textbooks, pretending I was a scholar. Math books were particularly fun, copying down a problem, adding a few more numbers, and pretending I’d solved the thing. Great intellectual exercise, though. It would be years before I realized how useful math, when properly understood and applied, can be in everyday life. Much better than that intellectual exercise.

No! Did it come off that way? I meant to suggest you were on your way, and that soon you would be applying religious intellect to everyday life. I had so much fun with my dad’s college books.

Seriously though, seeking and applying is a lot more fun. I just had to remind myself that sometimes it works quite well the opposite way as well. And I remembered my dad’s old college books. You don’t seem to understand the very well–but then I didn’t understand those text books at all and everything turned out just fine.

No! Did it come off that way? I meant to suggest you were on your way, and that soon you would be applying religious intellect to everyday life. I had so much fun with my dad’s college books.

Seriously though, seeking and applying is a lot more fun. I just had to remind myself that sometimes it works quite well the opposite way as well. And I remembered my dad’s old college books. You don’t seem to understand the very well–but then I didn’t understand those text books at all and everything turned out just fine.

Add me to the list of people who don’t understand. The first comment was a dis and the clarification that it wasn’t was just as dismissive and condescending. I could be wrong. How is telling someone their intellectual exercise is the equivalent to a child pretending to be wise not putting someone down?

You did not indicate if Jesus’ way is also misusing the word dead, in terms of seeds.

I think she would be content that the scripture doesn’t contain an anachronism from the mid 15th century.

I personally see a deeper meaning to the use of the word indicating a death to the current state of being is required in order for growth and the eventual bearing of fruit. Once this death occurs, one cannot return to their previous state, but either wither and die, stagnate, or grow to bear fruit.

Add me to the list of people who don’t understand. The first comment was a dis and the clarification that it wasn’t was just as dismissive and condescending. I could be wrong. How is telling someone their intellectual exercise is the equivalent to a child pretending to be wise not putting someone down?

Ya I dont understand it. Then the response was essentially “shut up and do/apply”. As if @AlexMcAlpine hasnt been seeking, asking questions, reading the bible, and isnt adult enough to take responsibility for the actions in his life. Atheists can be arrogant, but so can Christians.